Ski films go to the Last Frontier

Two of this season's top ski movies include footage from Last Frontier Heliskiing, the largest heli-ski tenure on earth. Both Matchstick Productions (MSP) and Teton Gravity Research (TGR) spent time at the remote heli-ski operation last season filming athletes skiing crazy lines in big mountains.

Re: Session, TGR's new ski title, includes footage of pro skier Seth Morrison. It was his first visit to Last Frontier and he was impressed. "The skiing is very similar to what I have skied in Alaska, but it has many more options for down-day type skiing (bad weather skiing). Many tree runs with tons of features in them; cliffs, pillow walls, pillow poppers. And with a tenure a quarter the size of Switzerland, we barley scratched the surface."

I watched MSP's new movie, In Deep, and the footage was impressive. Check out this picture by Randy Lincks from Last Frontier.

Last Frontier has two bases in northwestern B.C. One is the remote Bell 2 Lodge on the Cassiar Highway. The other is in the town of Stewart on the Alaska border. Each accesses different part of Last Frontier's massive 9,000 square kilometre tenure.

Besides their usual four, five and seven day heli-ski trips, Last Frontier is offering two new programs for 2010:

A Lodge to Lodge Heliski Safari: a tour which has guests staying half the week at one lodge and then skiing with the helicopter to the other lodge. Bags go by ground.

Heli Access Ski Touring: for the purist. Start the week with 4 days of helis access ski touring. 1st run of the day lifted out by helicopter. Stay with you guide all day ski touring. Could be short tree runs, a long traverse, or one big climb and a descent, but you'll certainly be earning your turns! Then the final 3 days of the week are "regular heliskiing".